Short answers, pulled from the story.
Jules Gabriel Verne was born on the 8th of February 1828 on Île Feydeau in Nantes. He lived at No. 4 Rue Olivier-de-Clisson inside the house of his maternal grandmother Dame Sophie Marie Adélaïde Julienne Allotte de La Fuëe.
On the 9th of March 1886 as Verne returned home his twenty-six-year-old nephew Gaston shot at him twice with a pistol. The second bullet entered Verne's left leg giving him a permanent limp that could not be overcome.
Pierre-Jules Hetzel published Five Weeks in a Balloon on the 31st of January 1863. Hetzel drew up a long-term contract for Verne to provide three volumes of text per year for his planned magazine called Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation.
Jules Gabriel Verne died after suffering from facial paralysis attacks starting in 1851 and a shooting incident in 1886. He entered politics in 1888 being elected town councillor of Amiens where he served for fifteen years until his death.
Verne was promoted to Officer rank in France's Legion of Honour on the 19th of July 1892. He had previously been made a knight of France's Legion of Honour on the 9th of April 1870.